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My wife and I kid each other about this. I tease her that every day she gets a little more like her mom and she to me says I’m turning into my dad.

But to answer the question, I’d say no but I am conscious not to acquire any undesirable traits my parents have. For instance, I still have never told my kids to “Turn that god damn music down!”. (If it’s too loud, you’re too old.)

Both of my parents are dead. I was becoming like my father when I was married to my first wife, but a friend helped me sort all that out. Now I am who I want to be, taking various behaviors and beliefs from wherever I find truth.

I kind of expected myself to be more like my parents, but I have managed to avoid a lot of the things I didn’t like in them. However, it does seem there are certain traits I share with my father that I am not proud of. I seem to have a sneer that puts the fear of God in people around me. Seems, my father does that, too.

No. At least not yet. I think I have some similarities with my mother – naturally since I (still) spend so much time with her – but our personalities as a whole are very different. She’s extroverted, vocally stubborn and confrontational, and not very interested in exploring things beyond their face value. I’m very introverted, quiet, pretty non-confrontational, at and rather curious about most things.